Some months ago I posed Rick Priestley a question. It was a bit cheeky, but I felt it was an important one… “have you any Sci-Fi left in you Rick?”

After inventing and then spending a quarter of a century presiding over the most successful tabletop game in history you could forgive this man if he decided to hang up his hat. With his epic creation being so vast, it’s hard to see how one brain could contain any more!

His answer surprised me though, it was the most confident ‘yes’ I have ever heard. Not a cocky yes but a matter of fact yes that came from someone who looked like they had been released from shackles.

Now some months later we are starting to see the vision Rick has been harbouring come to life.

I encourage you to watch the video and of course check out the Kickstarter. It’s a very daunting task the team are undertaking and put simply it needs all of our support.

Watch the video, enter the contest and feel free to discuss the implications of it all in the comments below!

Kickstarter contribution will be made tomorrow, great interview – really laid out the plan. HAving done a whole range of wargaming and MMOs could really see this developing into something amazing. Strikes me as EVE like with an easier access and cool models.

I pledged to this as soon as i saw it over a week ago and have put up two posts on forums i frequent. While no one replied it did get a few hits which i hope will have put some eyes on what looks like a fantastic game. I’m hoping the fluid story is as good as it says it is as i miss the good old days of the Eye of Terror campaign and such! was so much fun seeing how a game of that scale progressed and felt like you were actually progressing the story rather than “oh here i am again on Ivaxian VII fighting the enemies of the Imperium…..” I think you get the point. I’m deffos going for freebooters as i always loved the idea of Rogue traders in 40k and they feel similar to them. I’m hoping in Rick’s “family of games” we get to see ship battles similar to BFG which could then flow into the Tabletop game should you or should you not defeat the enemies defensive fleets and make planet fall!http://bit.ly/SgzikRhttp://bit.ly/VPQ7nM Links to Forum posts

Great Interview. I’m so excited for this game, as a fan of Bolt Action I think this is going to be great. I just wanna say thanks for Having the Kickstarter during tax return season. As soon as my return comes I will be In for the Feeder tier level.

I wish all the luck to Mr. Priestly and the team delivering Gates of Antares. Good luck in your endeavor.

One question though, how is this the first test for Kickstarter and our hobby but Relic Knights was not? Honestly I have Kickstarter fatigue and am continually surprised how many similar projects keep getting big dollars. Bones, Dreadball, Sedition Wars, Relic Knights, Kingdom Death and more. These are competing with 40k, WFB, infinity, FOW, Warmahordes, Maifaux and a bunch I can’t even remember. Either there is a much bigger fan base, and pool of money, then suggested by industry figures or there are a whole lot of people testing the limit of their credit cards to get these “great” starter deals. If the second is true then we will have a very short industry boom followed by a lot of companies closing their doors.

I’ve been playing Rick Priestley games for three decades now and I signed up to the kickstarter on day one just because he was involved. The more I learn about the game, the more excited I am to get my hands on it and try it!

Also Hansa should keep the bald head and ‘tache, he looks totally badass

I really like the concept of an organic storyline being played out. It seems like a megastrategic RPG for want of a better term. Although I won’t have the resources to be involved I really want to see this succeed.

One thing that I see as a potential downfall is that you have to buy into one faction. What happens if you want to have a second army? This could limit sales perhaps? Can you switch allegiance with the army you have?

Good luck to all involved and those who pledge. IMHO it reallly deserves success for the scale of vision.

Coincidentally I read your article just before watching the video. I would say it was an interesting analysis which was fair and well considered rather than provocative. I hope by playing down potential controversy I haven’t dampened things down! lol Wholly recommend people giving it a read.

I also hope your assessment is proved incorrect. But then I think you do too!

I would not of said critical, more an informative view on the requirements of a successful kick starter. With constructive suggestion. First one i will have back but I have my concerns about achieving the goal, but every faith in the team delivering if they recieve the funding.

Agree with your totally! I’m backing the project but we really need to hear more about the mini’s and some good sketches etc.

You see the real passion Rick has for the universe but at the moment it feels like 95% of it is stuck in his head. Really hope the project meets its goal so they can start to get more of it out into the real world (or cyberspace I guess), but they’ve really set themselves a high target especially since this project is in £’s rather than $’s.

I have been watching this Kickstarter from the beginning and I am very tempted to jump in. Oh what the heck – why not? I like the evolutionary nature, the campaigning, the potential diversity. I hope and believe DSC will be more of an interactive developer/manufacturer than some others. D10′s look like fun. Somewhere in this house, I have 20 or more of the very early GW Space Marines. I must dig them out as they may be worth a few bob.